MLA Commons | Rust Belt Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Rust Belt Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4a75ab7ba9294dd2ff512b287084796e Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Text for Discusssion: Robert Beuka's Suburbunation in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/text-for-discusssion-robert-beukas-suburbunation-5/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:27:36 -0500 Dear Readers of MLA Rust Belt Literature,
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Suburbination by Robert Beuka maps changes in society wrought by spatial shifts, internalized ideologies of space and place.
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BACKDROP The MC rhetorical orientation of United States university English Departments is so naturalized because class is never a lens to use. We…[Read more]

]]> 0 73ede660525b873b7dcb831871718431 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Text for Discusssion: Robert Beuka's Suburbunation in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/text-for-discusssion-robert-beukas-suburbunation/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:22:50 -0500 Dear Readers of MLA Rust Belt Literature,

Suburbination by Robert Beuka maps changes in society wrought by spatial shifts, internalized ideologies of space and place.
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BACKDROP The MC rhetorical orientation of United States university English Departments is so naturalized because class is never a lens to use. We can infer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a55675bc198b3b2e21c7296e4869941 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian satire Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/labor-day-and-swiftian-sature-sep-7-2020/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:28:32 -0400 QUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
gmcmilla@email.arizona.edu

Dear Colleagues,

I studied Jonathan Swift and the Augustan writer (Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson) at Indiana Univ. NW Campus Gary, Indiana. My Swiftian satire, All the Old,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9298aeb64cfb2f95794cfdac2969c96 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Lupe's Story: Lupe Gallardo Marshall @ the Memorial Day Massacre (Republic Steel) 1937 in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640798/ Thu, 23 May 2019 16:28:14 -0400 Pages from a local East Chicago, IN, publication commemorating the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre at South Chicago’s Republic Steel. Lupe Gallardo Marshall (Mexican immigrant social worker at Hull House) gave this testimony to the La Follette Committee of Congress investigating the events of that day, May 30, 1937.

I am thinking about writing a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7c13cad2f95508f92cd03ad10f17903 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637588/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:48:51 -0400 This is another tale of life in the famed Rust Belt and how denizens of the “Belt” fare when they attempt to enter the world beyond its boundaries to the university. this is more autobiographical than most so should probably be called “creative non-fiction?”
How can a student escape from the confines of an industrial home town or neighboring town…[Read more]

]]> 0 31f5891507e52f83c44ce7ed61051496 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/cfp-routledge-literary-handbook-lit-and-class/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 18:01:07 -0500 We are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.

I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
is…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef29905dc1ada30bf87928235e53395d Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man's "Gary, Indiana" song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/is-the-music-mans-gary-indiana-song-shockingly-misplaced-satire/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:15:08 -0500 Anyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man.  This…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8944787be83f6e3438d62df8c7e88cd Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614991/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:03:08 -0400 ‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…

Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018

Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc1302b595f7c32baa3eaac16ce0aea7 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell "The Fastest Runner on 61st Street" in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/race-in-chicago-story-farrell-the-fastest-runner-on-61st-street/ Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:46:42 -0400 RESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018

 

 

 

James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61<sup>st</sup> Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.

 

 

LINK:  https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-fastest-runner-on-sixty-first-streeta-story/

 

I had this s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2abc15a48ada91a7505af168b6e535d Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/new-essay-the-rust-belt-is-mythical-too/ Tue, 08 May 2018 14:40:43 -0400 The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! is a rhetorical analysis of the media-generated rhetorical trope “The Rust Belt.” Why are few if any writers of fiction being published who deal with this large region?  What is the effect of being called “The Rust Belt” upon creativity and cognitive development and/or writing anxiety?

]]> 0 7a71c6d45104ca701d39d4874bc46d78 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP: Rust Belt Literature panel for 3-6 Jan. 2019 MLA Conv. in Chicago in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/cfp-rust-belt-literature-panel-for-3-6-jan-2019-mla-conv-in-chicago/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:50:30 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

(1) We hope to have the first Rust Belt Literature panel ever at the MLA at the next national convention in Chicago. We are INTERDISCIPLINARY: For instance Lit. and Sociology, Lit and race, Radical Causus, teaching of Lit.,  Creative Writing (!), Urban lit. 20th and 21st C. Lit., Lit. in Lang. other than English, Lit. and…[Read more]

]]> 0 89517736b7ba7ca34e330c5a23881f9e Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605036/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 04:00:31 -0400 The Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fb89ab660cc7bd322e8b81a8fe9233d Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594647/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:50:31 -0500 The idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cae8250867b5ac8455e863b3b49e298 Gloria Lee McMillan posted an update in the group Rust Belt Literature: CFP: panel on Rust Belt Lit. at Chicago 2019 MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591422/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:21:17 -0500 CFP: panel on Rust Belt Lit. at Chicago 2019 MLA Convention

Contact Gloria McMillan here or at glomc@dakoatcom.net with ideas and abstracts.

]]> 1 8d8490c19f1ab6340f295ec37444174a Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) in the group Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570060/ Wed, 10 May 2017 20:15:09 -0400 A figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea14a61322ae7987b77fb34fdc3f2ef3 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start--the short story in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/how-to-start-the-short-story/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:36:31 -0500 <div class=”js-content”>
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What method work best for you to start a short story?  I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d5fff982bb31991b43230525056c096 Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/75-years-old-today-how-green-was-my-valley-welsh-coal-mining-valley/#post-12218 Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:11:27 -0400 SEE; Essay listed under “FILES” at left.

Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley turn 75 in a Time of Demagogues.

-Gloria McMillan

 

]]> 0 75317f97f83c0f57c44a0930a0f8ebcc Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley trun 75 in a time of Demagogues to Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552816/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:08:32 -0400 This essay challenges the dominant discourse on two highly controversial 1941 films Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley.
Film critics tend to be outraged and marvel today how this miscarriage of aesthetic justice ever could have happened. Why, they cry, did How Green was my Valley ever get chosen as 1942’s Best Picture of the Year over O…[Read more]

]]> 0 b83be656b1e7c06df4fb032cba260a6c Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/75-years-old-today-how-green-was-my-valley-welsh-coal-mining-valley/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:21:41 -0400 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY released Oct. 28, 1941.

Today is the 75th anniversary of this controversial (and prophetic) film that won Best Picture Oscar 1942 over Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane.

HGWMV shows the industrial growth and de-industrialization of a Welsh coal mining town long before people thought
of these problems.

I have written an essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 4656bcbe79d4a3bb892df43d45f18bdf Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Writing in a Wind Machine: Do Politicians Obsess over Steel workers? in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/writing-in-a-wind-machinee-do-polititicians-obsess-over-steel-workers/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 23:52:51 -0400 There is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting.  The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.

The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind.  How do we f…[Read more]

]]> 0 90ba3440f0d20f81c4fdf826ce70f15c Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Lit--New Members in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/rust-belt-lit-new-members/#post-11803 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:59:32 -0400 Welcome to this group, Brianna.  Please tell anyone your know who might also be interested.

If you would like to be on our group email list, just send your email address to: gmcmilla@email.arizona.edu

CHILDREN OF STEEL

is a short story collection I am putting together of stories from people who have lived in steel mill towns.  It is not n…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1377bd1f238a601fa8f8386dc7d112f Brianne Jaquette started the topic Rust Belt Lit--New Members in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/rust-belt-lit-new-members/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:50:59 -0400 I’m excited about the possibilities for this group. Let me know what I can do to help build it.

]]> 0 981e6bbaaa7c028665fabd2de31e3408 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE REVISED Welcome in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/rust-belt-literature-revised-welcome/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:24:58 -0400 We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Those who have been affected by the rust belt go beyond simply those who have grown up these. In a…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a090cc67d006d573e483bdc91ebf123 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic UPDATE: Children of Steel Story Collection CFP in the discussion Rust Belt Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/rust-belt-literature/forum/topic/update-children-of-steel-story-collection-cfp/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:08:22 -0400  

CFP UPDATE: CHILDREN OF STEEL

Sept. 1, 2016

We are counting down–60 days to our due date for your stories from all your
industrial home towns across the US.  After that you can still submit.  Just
a date to aim for.

We are in the home stretch, which brings to mind a cinematic analogy.

Audience awareness: Steve Tesich knew that most p…[Read more]

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